Rappenburg Castle

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Rappenburg Castle
Alternative name (s): Old castle
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Stimpfach- Rappenburg
Geographical location 49 ° 3 '31.5 "  N , 10 ° 6' 40.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '31.5 "  N , 10 ° 6' 40.6"  E
Height: 490  m above sea level NN
Rappenburg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Rappenburg Castle

The castle cents Castle , also Old Castle called, is a Outbound hilltop castle on 490  m above sea level. NN in the area of ​​the Rappenburg desert east of the municipality Stimpfach in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg .

The Burgstall , located at the tip of a western spur around 60 meters above the merging valleys of the Sägbach and its tributary Hainenbach , was probably a prehistoric ring wall . There is no documentary evidence of a medieval castle.

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . ( Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 18). Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 235-236.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rappenburg at leo-bw.de